The Coliseum

by The Fall

From the album: The Light User Syndrome

Track 11 of 15 on The Light User Syndrome (1996).

Duration: 8:08

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Lyrics for The Coliseum

Coliseum. The Coliseum. Look out, burn You ought to know this by now. You with the empty crane over... They're the gatekeepers and the sentinels. Their jokes are hum-drum. The Coliseum. (X4) Brown brass leading up to ionic columns. Trust them. Sometimes that is not enough In the vast cavernous emptiness That is the world of the callow. But they stood outside at bottom The Coliseum. (X3) Trust them. But sometimes that's not enough In the vast cavernous... The Coliseum.(X2) And you have to have a good condition To get into the coliseum. And the jingle jangle of this city Makes you hunger and down. You have to have a good condition To get into the coliseum. The coliseum.(X4 Brown brass leading up to ionic columns, But sometimes that's not enough... Their jokes are hum-drum. About 7: 30 to 8: 00, Tiredness sets in. You want to take a little break And get out of home. The coliseum.(X4) Brown brass... You've got to have a good condition To get into... These people, they will never ever learn. They are not fit to walk through The ionic columns of The coliseum. The coliseum. You've got to have a good condition To get into the coliseum.

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  2. Das Vulture Ans Ein Nutter-Wain
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  4. Hostile
  5. Stay Away (Old White Train)
  6. Spinetrak
  7. Interlude/Chilinism
  8. Powder Keg
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  10. Cheetham Hill
  11. The Coliseum
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  14. Oxymoron
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